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"FREQUENCIES OF DECEIT is not simply a history of radio. It is a history of how states tried to speak entire worlds into being—and of what happened when those words failed."

Author Margaret Peacock on her new book and how propaganda shaped the Middle East: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/w...

#MESA2025
When the Radio Lied
Author Margaret Peacock on Cold War propaganda and the crisis of language in the Middle East.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Your writing is your response to what you are consuming, and ideas can come from unexpected places."

THINGS UNSEEN author Ellen Muehlberger dispense valuable advice when crafting your book in our latest #AARSBL2025 author post:
Author Ellen Muehlberger on Building a Book
Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thanks to Ariel Dorfman and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "Dinges confirms in these hundreds of pages what has made him such a superb investigative journalist": lareviewofbooks.org/article/chil...
Chile Yesterday, America Today | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ariel Dorfman revisits acts of brutality in the 1970s and John Dinges’s investigation of who is to blame.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks to @thelancet.com for the great review of Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity: "Berkley’s narrative is both illuminating about this history and serves as a wake-up call": www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A quest for vaccine equity
For those working in global health, and especially on immunisation, it is difficult not to feel despair at the headwinds in 2025 that have been blowing forcefully against decades of collective efforts...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thanks to @economist.com for including Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity in their "Best Books of 2025" feature! www.economist.com/culture/2025...
The best books of 2025
Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Good morning, #MESA2025 attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors.

Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Another full day in the exhibit hall, #AARSBL2025 attendees! If you haven't already gotten your headstart on beating the holiday travel rush, drop by and check out our Religion books!

Or if you're already making your way home, our website is up for you save 40%:
American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Let's kick off #MESA2025 in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup!

NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
A Tomato-y Egyptian Lentil Soup for Cooler Days
Author Anny Gaul shares a cozy recipe for fall soup season that highlights the key themes in her book, "Nile Nightshade."
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November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!

And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We're grateful to our authors for providing us with original content to share for this year's #AARSBL2025

Read an excerpt from Christine Shepardson's A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE and her commentary on the wide questions of religion and violence:
Excerpt from "A Memory of Violence"
An excerpt from A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE with commentary from author Christine Sheparson.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Morning, #AARSBL2025 attendees! We're here all morning and afternoon so drop by and check out our latest books on Religion.

If you can't make it, our AAR website has all of displayed books on sales for 40% off: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thank you to the @americananthro.bsky.social and #AAA2025NOLA attendees for a wonderful conference. As mentioned out AAA website will remain open for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest Anthro books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year in St. Louis!
American Anthropological Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Birth is like some kind of open secret, a fact of life, a miracle, a trauma, both too precious and too abject to confront frankly."

NEAR BIRTH author Andrea Ford on the role of doulas in childbirth: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...

#AAA2025NOLA
How should babies be born? The question contains worlds.
What do doula-supported births reveal about American cultural values?
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November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thank you to the American Studies Association and all #ASA2025 attendees! Our website will remain up for several weeks so you can still save 40% off our latest American Studies books.

See you next year in Chicago for #ASA2026!
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Already our last day in The Big Easy at #AAA2025NOLA! Drop by before 2PM to check out our latest Anthro books.

Our AAA website will remain open for a few weeks for you to save 40% off our books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hello @aarweb.bsky.social and #AARSBL2025 attendees! With Thanksgiving a few days away, we're very thankful to be in Boston for this year's annual conference.

Drop by our booth to see the latest Religion books and visit our website to save 40% on all display books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our last day at #ASA2025 and it's a short one! We're here until 11AM so drop by now before we pack up for the year!

If you're already on your way out or just enjoying the beautiful city of San Juan, visit our website to save 40% off our titles on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
American Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"When a corporation donates bottled water, who drained the river in the first place?"

Amy Elizabeth Stambach, author of THE CORPORATE ALIBI, asks you to consider this question and more in her #AAA2025NOLA post:
When US Corporations Play Government: Notes from Africa
Author Amy Elizabeth Stambach on Amazon's recent expansion in South Africa and imagining futures that don’t rely on corporate alibis.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The new December 2025 issue of "Nineteenth_Century Literature" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/80...
Volume 80 Issue 2-3 | Nineteenth-Century Literature | University of California Press
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November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"The whole system depends on predominantly Black football players’ athletic labor and commitment to the game, but they are not compensated in a way that acknowledges that contribution."

Read our Q&A with TACKLING THE EVERYDAY author Tracie Canada: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

#AAA2025NOLA
College Football, Masculinity, and Race: Q&A with Tracie Canada
With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
UC Press is looking for a skilled Marketing Coordinator to help execute campaigns and keep our promotional efforts running smoothly. If you’re detail-oriented, collaborative, and ready to grow your marketing career in publishing, apply here: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
An incredibly timely examination of living undocumented, Andrea Gómez Cervantes writes for our blog about her book ILLEGALITY IN THE HEARTLAND and the lives of those living undocumented in the Midwest during the first Trump administration.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/e...

#ASA2025
University of California Press
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
At #ASA2025 (American Studies)? Join Editor Naja Pulliam-Collins for a roundtable this afternoon:

📚 Publishing in Environmental Justice, Naturecultural Studies, & Environmental Humanities
🕒 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
📍Room 204
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"I was unprepared for the scale of the abuse that I ended up documenting."

Our powerful Q&A with UNFORGIVABLE author Kevin O'Neill and the lengths the Catholic Church will go to cover up abusers.*: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

#AAA2025NOLA

*Trigger warning for conversations around sexual abuse
Q&A with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, author of "Unforgivable"
Author Kevin Lewis O'Neill discusses his new book "Unforgivable," the first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM